Charlie's WorldOff-road goodness
Posted on March 30, 2014
So, having just talked myself up on the internet about how badd-ass I’m going to be riding my bike into the inhospitable red centre of Australia, I thought I’d actually take it off road. You mean I haven’t actually been off road on this thing?
Pah, details.
*ahem*
So I fuelled up and headed for the hills.
500th Post! – Adventure Dreaming
Posted on March 3, 2014
Happy 500th postaversary,
I’ve been blogging for ages – close to 10 years now, but as is the way of things, blogs were started, burned, rekindled, abandoned. But this one has been around since Feb 2008, which make it almost 6. Not too shabby. Theres been some ups and downs, but generally life is good. Busy, crazy, but good.
So – this 500th postaversary post is dedicated to an adventure (or more likely, multiple adventures) I want to have over the next 6 years. Thats reasonable chunk of time, so it should be doable.
See, I’m a nerd. As a geologist (by education and passion), I love amazing geological wonders – fossils, volcanoes, crazy sites of incredible geological importance. So, I thought I’d pick a few incredible sites – world famous science changing sites that Australia has to offer, and go see them in person.
On my motorbike. Read More
Pics from the daily commute – 2
Posted on March 2, 2014
Twas a lovely morning for it, but then it usually in in Perth in the summer to be fair. You really have to be on the road early before the sun has had too much time to crank up the heat, but as I’m in work before 8, thats not usually a problem 🙂
Pics from the daily commute – 1
Posted on February 25, 2014
I got a GoPro camera for taking all kinds of video footage, but primarily for taking videos when I’m on the bike.
The videos are fun (I’ll post some up later) but I don’t have a fast enough computer to be able to process my daily files and make decent clips (that’s about to change though, as I have a shiny iMac about to be delivered (if we can ever time the delivery to when we’re actually home..)) – but what I can do is take stills from the camera and show you all how fun my day is. Read More
Christmas 2013 – Walk round Point Peron
Posted on January 28, 2014
We decided to have another adventure with just the three of us – this time going for a long walk around one of my favourite parts of Rockingham – Point Peron. Technically it’s actually Cape Peron but who’s counting!
Point Peron is limestone, joined onto the land by a thin strip of sand that one day will erode away and Peron will become another of the many islands that dot the coast.
We walked up to the old WW2 gun emplacement and then down onto the beach, poking around the rockpools for crabs and other goodies. Read More
More from Christmas 2013
Posted on January 27, 2014
Damn, I’m slack – I was meaning to do a post every few days to get through all these, now it’s a month late and it’s not so relevant. Ah well.
Anyway, continuing the theme – we spent a lot of time outside (as it wasn’t stupidly hot) and the beach, being pretty much on my front door step, was an obvious place to hang out for Ella and Henry! Read More
It’s Chriiiiiiiiiiiisssstmaaaaaaas.
Posted on December 26, 2013
Yes, it is, as yelled by Noddy Holder in that old faithful seasonal refrain, ‘Merry Christmas Everybody’
I hope you had a brilliant Christmas – I certainly have!
But first, a small apology Read More
Public Holiday walkies
Posted on September 30, 2013
After a week of pouring rain and the last of the winter storms, the skies cleared and we had a beautiful day. Which, as luck would have it, was a public holiday.
Boo yar.
So, some chores and blah blah later, it was time for a ride on my bike.
I was going to go for a long ride, but I rode up to Point Peron and it looked so lovely that I decided to go for a walk and leave the long ride for another time
More X100 – a little review and some pics
Posted on July 1, 2013
First, I’d just like you all to notice for the record that this the second post in a row that hasn’t featured anything motorbike related.
But this is camera related!
The X100. I truly love this little camera.
It looks utterly fabulous and takes brilliant pictures.
I did have to upgrade the firmware to the latest version as the original settings meant it did some things that were downright annoying. (6 seconds for the camera to start, for example) To be fair, all these things had been reported in thousands of reviews,blogs, youtube clips and all over the internet, so it was really my own fault for not doing it sooner. Read More
And another thing…
Posted on June 15, 2013
Just when you thought it was safe to come back..
MORE PHOTOS!
I know. It’s a bit of a cheek really, as I already had all these shots ready to go last week, but held them back a I didn’t want that last post to be endlessly massive.
But I care not one jot, you all love me anyway, right? Read More
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